ISO-NE market rules favoring natural gas clash with renewable energy goals, speakers at the EUCI US/Canada Cross-Border Power Summit said.

The increase in wind generation under the Clean Power Plan would likely exceed MISO’s previous assumptions, according to a new study.

Speakers at EUCI’s US-Canada Cross-Border Power Summit discussed the challenges of natural gas' rapid rise and displacement of other resources.

On-peak day-ahead electricity prices in the U.S. were down 27 to 35% in 2015 due to cheap natural gas, FERC staff said in its State of the Markets report.

The Monitor reported that the PJM energy, capacity, regulation, synchronized reserve and FTR markets were all competitive in the 2015 State of the Market.

Low load growth and the shift from coal to natural gas mean a need for fewer baseline transmission projects, PJM said in its 2015 RTEP.

With its window for limited tree felling closing in four weeks, Constitution Pipeline is again asking FERC for permission to allow the operation in New York.

Dominion Resources blamed December’s “extremely mild weather” for a 15% drop in its fourth-quarter earnings.

FERC called for an investigation into four interstate natural gas pipelines that it believes might be charging shippers in PJM, ISO-NE, NYISO and CAISO too much.

MISO Monitor David Patton reported that congestion caused by outages and under-scheduling of wind resources were causes for concern.